In The District Court Of The United States For The State Of Iowa Southern Division Hon J M Love Judge

by Mississippi River Railroads

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Chicago, IL : Press and Tribune Print, 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203, 51 pp. Folding plate, tables. On the question of whether the railroad bridge from Rock Island, Illinois to Davenport, Iowa was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River OCLC . James Ward, a St. Louis steamboat owner, filed a bill praying that the bridge be declared a nuisance and ordered removed; in 1866, Congress finally passed an act requiring that the bridge be replaced by

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